The Mysterious Case Of 'E1' — The Alleged Russian Assassin That The UK Wants Out Of London

Observers of "Londongrad" (as London's burgeoning Russian emigre
community is often referred to) were given a new bit of intrigue
this weekend when they were introduced to the mysterious case of
"E1".

The Sunday Telegraph got its hands on court documents filed
by the British intelligence agency MI5 that sought to remove a
mysterious man known as E1 from the UK, arguing that he was
working on a middleman on an assassination attempt and would be a
serious threat to national security.

MI5 wrote: “Kadyrov, who had been responsible for the
assassination of a number of his opponents, has a black list of
individuals, some of whom he wished to have assassinated, and …
the exiled Prime Minister of Chechnya, Akhmed Zakayev, a refugee
living in the UK, was believed to be on this list.”

The security agency went on to say that E1 was also thought to be
involved in the murder of Umar Israilov, a former Kadyrov
bodyguard and vocal critic killed in Austria in 2009.

Amazingly, however, E1 may be allowed to stay in the country
despite these concerns. He arrived in the country as a refugee
from the brutal Chechan war in 2003. He now has 6 children inside
the UK, two of them born there, and it may be these family links
to the UK that would allow him to overturn a decision personally
made by the UK home secretary Theresa May and stay in the
country,
the Guardian reports.

E1's wife and children are now British citizens, though his own
citizenship has been denied. He is currently in detention while
his legal battle continues.

For "Londongrad", the news seems to confirm everyone's worst
fears — that far from being the safe-haven many Russian emigres
like to think it is, old grudges from Russian are being settled
on English soil.